Summary: Part A: Based on the explosive article Mike Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, his book, “The Party Is Over” is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington, politics. Part B: Janet Groth's typing skills weren't up to par when the slim blonde moved from the Midwest to Manhattan in 1957, but she managed to land a receptionist job at The New Yorker. Educated and liberated, she never realized her dreams of becoming a novelist. But in her new memoir, The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker, she recounts how she was pursued, wined and dined by famous men of all ages while working at the magazine
